Lee Child is the author of thirteen Jack Reacher thrillers, including theNew York TimesbestsellersPersuader,The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way,and #1 bestsellersBad Luck and TroubleandNothing to Lose. His debut,Killing Floor,won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, andThe Enemywon both the Barry and Nero awards for Best Novel. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in forty territories. All titles have been optioned for major motion pictures. Child, a native of England and a former television director, lives in New York City, where he is at work on his fourteenth Jack Reacher thriller.

Lee Child (born 1954, Coventry, England) is the pen name of British thriller writer Jim Grant . His wife Janeis a New Yorkerand they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel.
Each of Child's novels follows the adventures of a former American Military Policeman named Jack Reacher who is wandering the United States.